Sports Car GT - Worse with new Voodoo3 3000 vs. Diamond Monster II

I have an HP Pentium II 400mhz. I had a 12meg Diamond Monster II. I upgraded to a Voodoo3 3000 AGP to basically get top framerates out of GPL. Sports Car GT ran smooth with the Diamond II, so I figured the move to a Voodoo3 would not get better or worse. Well, the weird thing is, with this much better video card, the game seems to look worse. I don't know if what I am experience is a change in framerates during the running of the game, or what, but it just seems like the games is dropping frames, or very momentarily slowing down at times. I dunno.... I did end up with 35-36 fps in GPL, but I am just perplexed by what seems to be a feeling that SCGT is just not as smooth... Anybody see this ? Mike

Gee Mike, that's too bad. Have you tried the latest V3 drivers? I think they're dated 11/99 or 12/99. If its a new V3, you can get an overclocking utility for it and crank the core and memory from 166Mhz to 183 or more. Maybe that would help. I may be able to find the URL for the OC'er. Slot >I have an HP Pentium II 400mhz. I had a 12meg Diamond Monster II. I >upgraded to a Voodoo3 3000 AGP to basically get top framerates out of GPL. >Sports Car GT ran smooth with the Diamond II, so I figured the move to a >Voodoo3 would not get better or worse. Well, the weird thing is, with this >much better video card, the game seems to look worse. I don't know if what >I am experience is a change in framerates during the running of the game, or >what, but it just seems like the games is dropping frames, or very >momentarily slowing down at times. I dunno.... I did end up with 35-36 fps >in GPL, but I am just perplexed by what seems to be a feeling that SCGT is >just not as smooth... Anybody see this ? >Mike

V3 Overclocker Utility (thanks to Michael Carver for the URL) http://tweakfiles.com/video/voodoo3overclocker.html don [|]-(_)-[|]

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>Gee Mike, that's too bad. Have you tried the latest V3 drivers? I think >they're dated 11/99 or 12/99. If its a new V3, you can get an overclocking >utility for it and crank the core and memory from 166Mhz to 183 or more. >Maybe that would help. I may be able to find the URL for the OC'er. >Slot >>I have an HP Pentium II 400mhz. I had a 12meg Diamond Monster II. I >>upgraded to a Voodoo3 3000 AGP to basically get top framerates out of GPL. >>Sports Car GT ran smooth with the Diamond II, so I figured the move to a >>Voodoo3 would not get better or worse. Well, the weird thing is, with

this >>much better video card, the game seems to look worse. I don't know if what >>I am experience is a change in framerates during the running of the game, >or >>what, but it just seems like the games is dropping frames, or very >>momentarily slowing down at times. I dunno.... I did end up with 35-36 fps >>in GPL, but I am just perplexed by what seems to be a feeling that SCGT is >>just not as smooth... Anybody see this ? >>Mike

did you try to reinstall sports car? or setup your v3 from this page http://www.3dspotlight.net/tweaks/voodoo3/index.shtml